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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
People keep blaming Sutter but (as I posted in another thread) there are half a dozen or more guys on pace to have career years offensively or very close to it.
When Toffoli, Kadri, Lindholm, Coleman, Dube, Backlund, Zadorov, Andersson and others are on pace for their best or second best season offensively this year, and guys like Gaudreau and Tkachuk scored over 100 points last season, it becomes entirely evident that people who blame Sutter’s coaching for a lack of offence are doing so because they want to, not because the evidence points that direction.
Whatever the problem is, it’s Huberdeau’s to figure out. Why is he so special that he gets excused for not producing when everybody else has managed to produce well under Sutter?
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This is possibly the most accurate rebuttal to the Sutter detractors that I've seen to date.
Work hard and manage the puck is about the two most basic things that you have to do under Sutter. If this is too much for Huberdeau, than we are in big trouble as a franchise moving forward as his 10+M AAV is going to cripple the team if all he's giving you is 15G and 60P.
Even at that rate, none of this explains at all how terrible he has been on the PP (and OT) - an area I expected him to be completely dominant as a high skill, creative player.